- Title:
- New Denmark, New Brunswick: new approaches in the study of Danish migration to Canada, 1872-1901
- Creator:
- Lang, Erik John Nielsen
- Date Created:
- 2005
- Degree Awarded:
- Master of Arts
- Subjects:
- Danes New Brunswick Immigrants New Brunswick History
- Geographical Focus:
- Canada New Brunswick
- Supporting Materials:
- n/a
- Description:
- From 1870 to 1914, some 20,000 Danish migrants arrived in Canada directly from Denmark or through the United States. The Danes were highly sought after by Canadian governments as they were seen as agricultural, easily assimilated, and of northern stock. Danes spread themselves thinly across Canada, eroding a strong sense of identity and resulting in a historiography whose evolution, compared with that of other European ethnic groups, has been slower to accept new approaches and perspectives. This study will focus upon the 1872 to 1901 period of Danish migration and settlement in New Denmark, New Brunswick. Its first purpose is to explore political and policy aspects of New Denmark’s settlement history that had previously been neglected. Secondly, it will apply more modermn techniques of analysis, such as the use of quantitative methods, to help bring the historiography of New Denmark and Danish migration more into line with work on other European nfigranf groups. Four main points will be argued: firstly that only with the help of 2 Dominion subsidy was New Brunswick willing to mount a serious recruitment, immigration, and settlement scheme, secondly that there exists no hard evidence proving New Denmark’s location was chosen as a buffer against Francophone encroachment, thirdly that New Denmark represents a distinct subset of Danish emigration, and finally that in part due to poor economic conditions, immigration to New Denmark was counterbalanced by an outflow of population of similar magnitude.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- Lang, Erik John Nielsen. 2005. "New Denmark, New Brunswick: new approaches in the study of Danish migration to Canada, 1872-1901", Department of History, Carleton University
- Link to this page:
- https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/items/hist_148.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright the author, all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.